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I am so happy - it is just a dead drive! Thank the Lord for Carbon Copy Cloner!!! Becasue without it a dead drive would have been a disaster.
I finally got the bad drive to boot and while I was at it I ran Disk Utility. It said my internal drive reported a fatal hardware error and to get busy backing up data. One question please. I have 2 internal drives. The one that died and a second internal drive that just has data (no system installed). Now that I can boot off the firewire external drive, I can no longer see/mount that second internal data only drive. I copied a few important files to it (my mail directory and my latest quicken data). Why can't I see it? Is it because the other internal drive is hosed? I am going to keep the whole thing shut down until I get a new internal drive and perhaps that data only drive will pop up once I get a working internal system drive?
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